SmokeLong Weekly The New Doctor by Abe Gaustad, May 14, 2012 When the new doctor joined the staff, he told us he was afraid of blood. He said there had been a childhood accident. His brother had dived into an empty pool. His brother always wore dark sunglasses due to his eyes being scalded by hot water when he was a baby, and so he often saw things that weren't there—transparent moths, skinny children, and, yes, water. The new doctor had found his brother at the bottom of the pool as summer insects buzzed in the heavy air. The blood—the new doctor told us—the blood from his little brother made the shape of a full windsock as it flowed toward the pool's drain. Read more. SmokeLong Quarterly Issue Thirty-Five (March 26, 2012): Bird, White and Running by Paula Cappa «» I Don't Know Who Used to Live Here but No One Lives Here Now by Isaac Boone Davis «» Blood by Justin Lawrence Daugherty «» Eversharp by Cherie Hunter Day «» Everyone Continued to Sing by Josh Denslow «» WHERE RU by James Drew «» His Mother the Rubble by Jesse Eagle «» Lacrimosa by Jo Gatford «» Reunion by Kawika Guillermo «» A Madness by Katy Gunn «» The Right Wing by Mark Hage «» To & From by Joshua Helms «» The Summer of '84 by Derek Loosvelt «» Girls Town by Rebekah Matthews «» Benediction by Sharon McGill «» Conversion by Gasoline by Marsha McSpadden «» Fire Egg by Brian Mihok «» From "The Game of Surrounding" by Ian Sanquist «» Lydia Before by Aliya Whiteley «» Interviews: Paula Cappa «» Isaac Davis «» Justin Lawrence Daugherty «» Cherie Hunter Day «» Josh Denslow «» James Drew «» Jesse Eagle «» Jo Gatford «» Kawika Guillermo «» Katy Gunn «» Mark Hage «» Joshua Helms «» Derek Loosvelt «» Rebekah Matthews «» Sharon McGill «» Marsha McSpadden «» Brian Mihok «» Ian Sanquist «» Aliya Whiteley «» Cover Art "Crick" by Josh George «» Letter From the Editor This Week's Reader Jennifer Pashley's fiction has been awarded the Red Hen Prize (2005), The Mississippi Review Prize (2009) and the Carve Magazine Esoteric Award for LGBT Fiction (2012). Her stories have appeared in Swink, PANK, Salt Hill, and BLIP, among others. She is the author of the story collection, States.She will read stories submitted to SmokeLong May 14-20. Submit. SmokeLong Feature Smoking with Dave Reale April 2, 2012 This is part of an intermittent series of interviews with the artists who illustrate the wonderful stories we publish. Read more. Interested in subscribing to SmokeLong's weekly newsletter? Click here. An email should be created. Send it as is, and you'll be subscribed. If the link does not work for you, send an email to imailsrv@smokelong.com with Subscribe slq-info in the body of the email (no subject is necessary). You'll receive updates detailing the release of new issues, new reading periods, contests, etc. We do not make our mail list available to anyone else.